Piano recital: ‘The Tempest’

Cristian Sandrin's latest programme is inspired by Prospero's speech in Shakespeare's play ‘The Tempest’, in which he reflects on the transience of life: “We are such stuff as dreams are made on”.

It was a concept that appealed to composers seeking to cast off the structural conventions and emotional constraints of the Classical period in favour of Romanticism – that revolutionary movement in music which began in the late 18th century. Cristian Sandrin’s concert features piano sonatas by three pioneers of Romanticism: Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert, in a rousing musical celebration of colour and drama, intimacy and elemental fire.